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Jonathan Cole

Losing Touch

A man without his body

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What is like to live without touch or movement/position sense (proprioception)? The only way to understand the importance of these senses, so familiar we cannot imagine their absence, is to ask someone in that position. Ian Waterman lost them below the neck over forty years ago, though pain and temperature perception and his peripheral movement nerves were unaffected. Without proprioceptive feedback and touch the movement brain was disabled. Completely unable tomove, he felt disembodied and frightened. Then, slowly, he taught himself to dress, eat and walk by thinking about each movement and with visual supervision.In Losing Touch, the narrat… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-108770-7
  • EAN: 9780191087707
  • Produktnummer: 20285672
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 12'473 KB

Über den Autor


A consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology at Poole Hospital and professor at the University of Bournemouth, Jonathan Cole trained at Brasenose College, Oxford and The Middlesex Hospital, London.His neuroscience research has focussed on sensory loss and motor control. Also interested in the experience of impairment, he studied with Oliver Sacks in the US in 1977 and has written several books; Pride and a Daily Marathon, about Ian's early experiences, About Face, Still Lives, on the experience of spinal cord injury and The Invisible Smile, on living without facial expression, and was an executive editor of The Paradoxical Brain, (Kapur, Ed).

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